That day, my flight took off from Osaka Kansai at 11:03 Japan time (GMT+9). The flight from Osaka to Amsterdam took approximately 11 hours and 17 minutes which covered a distance of 9250 kilometer. So 11 hours and 17 minutes later, I landed at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. The local time, however, was 15:20 Dutch time (GMT+1 with DST). Which means that it felt like I had just been flying for 4 hours and 17 minutes only! Hahaha😆 .

So in my life, on Thursday I spent 11 hours and 3 minutes in Japan, 11 hours and 17 minutes in the international air space, and 8 hours and 40 minutes in the Netherlands. Thus, my Thursday was 11:03 + 11:17 + 08:40 = 31:00.

So in literal sense, on Thursday I had the longest day of my life thus far!!

DST

The reason behind this was obviously the time difference between Japan and the Netherlands. Speaking of which, another reason I am very glad this trip was a spring trip spanning three weeks from March to April was that I gotta skip my less favorite DST (Daylight Saving Time) in the Netherlands in early April! Haha😆 .

That day, the time in the Netherlands was forwarded by one hour. So had I been in the Netherlands that day, I would have had only 23 hours in one day. And that would have suck because I don’t like it.

And this DST is the reason why the time difference between Japan (where DST is not observed now) and the Netherlands is now 7 hours even though the difference in the time zone, GMT-wise, is actually 8 hours.

A KLM’s Boeing 777-300ER reg PH-BVG which brought me back to the Netherlands from Japan on Thursday.